Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs responds to the Scottish government retrospectively altering a press release to remove claims that minimum alcohol pricing has directly saved lives.
The NHS workforce plan aims for a large expansion in health service staffing. We examine the potential implications for NHS funding.
Blog posted by: David Crouch - consultant, Beyond20 and co-author, ITIL 4 Digital and IT Strategy, August 2023.
Our response focuses on the technological landscape and the pivotal role that innovation and digitalisation play in realising a sustainable energy system.
Investment in the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), a driving force in supporting early-stage innovation and high-impact businesses, now totals £102m.
Blog posted by: Avinash Singh - country manager and principal consultant, Fox IT, August 2023.
Eight projects share £1.4 million to develop the UK's infrastructure resilience against severe weather events such as extreme floods caused by climate change.
Simon Pickersgill, UK Managing Director at Qualitest, shares his thoughts on digital engineering.
Blog posted by: Sophie Hussey - Director, Lapis Consulting Services, August 2023.
Government has a target of spending £1 in every £3 (33%) of its procurement budget with SMEs and is taking a range of measures to try to achieve this.
Blog posted by: David Barrow -Enterprise Service Management Consultant, 24 August 2023.
This Campaign Week will be focusing on Digital Twin growth opportunities. Showcasing the market dynamics and major factors such as drivers, restraints, opportunities, and trends influencing the global market.
Between 1 October 2023 to 2025, the European Union's (EU) policy mechanism addressing trading goods' over-estimated carbon emissions will initiate its transitional phase, during which time quarterly emissions reporting will be required - meaning businesses will need to follow new compliance and reporting requirements, getting ready for reporting measures which will incur cost implications and operational changes
Trans activists' demands to shutdown dissent is a major threat to free speech.
Today's quarterly immigration statistics from the Home Office reveal that the number of people in the asylum backlog at the end of June 2023 increased to just over 175,000. While the government has reduced the number of cases in the legacy backlog, this has been offset by new cases entering the asylum system.
The UK's asylum system crisis is likely to be significantly worse by the next general election, with any incoming government facing high risk of a “perma-backlog” of thousands of new asylum-seekers needing long-term accommodation and support, according to an assessment published this week.
Organisations representing hundreds of thousands of health and care professionals, and the millions who use their services, warn that so many people are routinely going without the essentials it poses a serious risk to the UK's health.
The MOD is looking for information from industry to gain an awareness of companies that can help scale and support an experimental defence network architecture through the concept known as a “Mission Partner”. The intent is to enable the scaling, delivery and support of digital services.
In recent years, devolution in England has become a cross-party political agenda. The government has concluded ‘trailblazer' devolution deals with the Greater Manchester and West Midlands Combined Authorities (WMCA), and new devolution deals in areas including York and North Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has led the Army's largest ever force development war game and collaboration.
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on July's public sector finance report
The UK is at risk of falling behind in the global race to achieve a net zero economy without strategic public investment in green manufacturing technologies, according to a new report by the IPPR think tank.
techUK is delighted to announce the members of the Local Public Services Committee for the September 2023 to July 2025 tenure.
Dstl took part in a recent 2-day workshop run by the Machine Speed Command and Control (MSC2) project on artificial intelligence (AI).
techUK is working closely with the Home Office National Policing Capabilities Unit (NPCU) to carry out a scoping exercise with industry around advances in AI, what they mean for public safety, what capabilities might be needed to respond to AI-enabled criminality and what opportunities these advances provide Policing.
